365 Days of Art: May 5 – Winslow Homer Sketches Civil War Battle
May 5, 1864
While traveling with the Union army, Winslow Homer observes and sketches the Battle of the Wilderness, which he later turns into a painting.
Skirmish in the Wilderness, the painting, depicts the first meeting between the troops of Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant, in northern Virginia.